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BEIJING, CHINA (BosNewsLife)-- An elderly jailed house church activist remained in "life danger" Saturday, August 18, as her health rapidly deteriorates because of abuses in prison, her family said.

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (BosNewsLife)-- Two Christian female aid workers released by Afghanistan's Taliban militants arrived visibly traumatized at South Korea's main international airport Friday, 17, after learning for the first time that two of the remaining hostages were killed.

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL (BosNewsLife)-- An American evangelical pastor and his wife working in Israel for nearly two decades have been ordered to leave the country within 14 days, because of their alleged involvement in missionary work.

BAGHDAD, IRAQ (BosNewsLife)-- As the death toll of suicide truck bombings in northern Iraq rose to at least 400 people Thursday, August 16, an influential conservative group urged the United States Congress to prevent the "extermination" of Iraqi Christians and other non-Islamic religious minorities by supporting American troops.

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)-- In a move expected to increase pressure on millions of Christians preaching Christ as "the Way, the Truth and the Life" the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) wants to join an ecumenical effort, backed by the Vatican, to "guide activities seeking converts to Christianity," BosNewsLife learned.

KABUL/SEOUL (BosNewsLife)-- The militant Taliban movement said Wednesday, August 15, that one of the South Korean Christian hostages they were going to set free in Afghanistan "due to ill health" opted to stay in captivity for the sake of another colleague whose condition was worse.

BUDAPEST/MOSCOW (BosNewsLife)-- There was international concern Tuesday, August 14, about the fate of two detained Baptist leaders in the former Soviet republics of Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan.

HANOI, VIETNAM (BosNewsLife) -- Hundreds of Degar-Montagnard Catholics have been driven from "their ancestral villages" in Vietnam's Central Highlands by security forces who burned their houses to the ground, a group representing the believers said Monday, August 13.

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (BosNewsLife) -- The militant Taliban movement on Monday, August 13, released two of the 21 remaining South Korean Christians held hostage in Afghanistan, BosNewsLife monitored.

WASHINGTON/NEOSHO (BosNewsLife)-- A gunman was in police custody early Monday, August 13, after he opened fire in the sanctuary of a Protestant church in the US state of Missouri, killing a pastor and two worshippers and wounding up to five others, police and other officials said.